Automotive journalists are a curious bunch, to put it mildly. Many drive new vehicles on a weekly basis, getting insider access to manufacturers for better, or occasionally worse, ends. I lost access ...

The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell its manufactured products abroad in an “export or die” model ...

People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...

In the car world, we hear the word “preservation” quite a bit. For many, it means an uncompromising reverence for all-original classic automobiles that are just as they were when they were new, or ...

In the past 20 years, unless you count obituaries of pals gone behind pit wall, I’ve written rarely about cars. If it weren’t for Yugo’s anniversary and recent hints that the brand may actually make a ...

“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...

Not long after I began contributing to Hagerty eight years ago, I wrote a detailed four-part piece on electrical relays and how they work in cars. You can still find the articles here (Part I: Why We ...

If you have ever scratched your head and pondered the appeal of the Saab 900 Turbo 16S, a car that turned 40 at the end of last year, let me tell you a story. And before you scoff and think it an ...

Don’t get too excited about the prospect of grabbing a bunch of rare Fox wagon parts off this car, because I shot these photos in December of 2022; sometimes I write about junkyard cars right away, ...

Students in the auto restoration program at McPherson College, which is expanding its curriculum to include mechanical engineering this fall. Courtesy McPherson College/Corey Nolen There are roughly ...

Never say never—unless you’re talking about diesel as a mainstream fuel option in the U.S. We’re more likely to see wood-burning steam engines under the hood of future cars than we are ...

It’s always fascinating to go back and read verdicts from bygone car magazine tests. Some of these multi-car shootouts get it right, some get it wrong, and others remind us that, as much as things ...